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Turkey is somewhat different. Of course, Turks adore cats and there are stray cats all over Istanbul, and the local population feeds them. But Turks are also okay with dogs.
There is a Dobermann breeder in Turkey whom I've seen who clearly loves his doggies. He trains them well, breeds them big, and they're excellent guard dogs.
Dobermanns are one of my favorite breeds. They're the only breed of dog ever bred just to be guard dogs. All other guard dogs, like German Shepherds, had other jobs first.
During World War II, about 75% of US military dogs were Dobermanns, often donated from US families for the war effort.
The Dobermanns were so loyal that, in the Pacific Theater, when their handler was killed in battle, the Dobermann would not let any other American soldier near his body. The Dobermanns went all out even to protect their dead handlers' corpses. That's how loyal they are.
So the Marine Corps had to adopt a policy of training Dobermanns with two handlers, so if one fell in battle, the other handler could get near his body and retrieve it.
After the war, military policy was to euthanize all war dogs, seeing them as unfit, after experiencing war, to return to home life in the US. Some veterinarian trainers of the dogs intervened and worked to rehabilitate the dogs for return to their families. Of course, their families also wanted their dogs back. The book "War Dogs" is fascinating.
Dobermanns were first bread in the 1890s and remained in the top 10 most commonly owned dogs in US households through the 1970s, so for three generations they were extremely popular.
Unfortunately, around the 70s, ghetto blacks started adopting them and not training them properly, and the news media, junk that it is, was eager to sensationalize Dobermann attacks. So nowadays most people think Dobermanns are dangerous dogs, even though, for 80 years, they were one of the main family dogs in the US, especially among wealthy families who prized excellent guard dogs.
